Ohio Supreme Court to Consider What Makes for a Specific ReferenceOn September 18, 2017, Ohio’s Seventh District Court of Appeals granted a Motion to Certify a Conflict to the Ohio Supreme Court stemming from its decision in Blackstone v. Moore, 2017-Ohio-7751. The Seventh District recognizes that its decision directly conflicted with the Fifth District’s decision in Duvall vs. Hibbs regarding specific versus general references to […]...More

Sparse Evidence Found Sufficient to Prove Continuous ProductionIn one of the court’s final decisions of 2016, the Ohio Court of Appeals for the Seventh District considered what evidence was sufficient to demonstrate production satisfactory to maintain an approximately 121 year old oil and gas lease in Potts v. Unglaciated Industries, Inc., 2016-Ohio-8559. The suit in Potts involved the current landowners’ claims for […]...More

Different Decisions Delivered for 2 Pipelines Seeking Right-of-Way in OhioOil and gas pipeline companies’ ability to use Ohio’s eminent domain laws to acquire construction rights-of-way were recently the subject to two Ohio court decisions with very different outcomes. In a highly publicized ruling, the Court of Common Pleas of Wood County, Ohio ruled in Kinder Morgan Utopia, LLC v. PDB Farms of Wood County, […]...More